TELEGRAM TO I. N. SMIRNOV

Written:Written on December 15, 1919Published:First published in 1959 inLenin Miscellany XXXVI.

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      Moscow,Volume 44,

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SmirnovRevolutionary Military CouncilOmsk

Congratulationson the capture of Novonikolayevsk.See that the Kuznetsk area and coal are seized intact.
Remember, it will be a crime to forge too far ahead in the East,
when it is necessary with vigorous
energy....[1]

Informme of the hour of receipt of this telegram.

LeninChairman, Council of People’s Commissars

[1]Therest of the telegram has not been deciphered.—Ed.